Microelectronics and Reliability , Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 581-584, 1998

Impact of Pre-Conditioning, Voltage Bias and Temperature on Reliability of Plastic Encapsulated Microcircuits

P. Sharma, K. Upadhyayula, L. Lantz and M. Pecht
CALCE Electronic Packaging Research Center
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
http://www.calce.umd.edu

Abstract

This paper investigates the effect of pre-conditioning, voltage bias and test temperature on the reliability of DIP and SOIC packages, molded with four different epoxy compounds, which were subjected to accelerated test conditions.

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